THIS WEEK IN SEX ABUSE OF CHILDREN BY PEDOPHILE CATHOLIC PRIESTS [DECEMBER 30, 2017]

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The local diocese posted a statement cheering Sullivan’s return, emphasizing that its clergy abuse review panel decided the boy who accused him was “not credible.” The young boy had said that, in 2008, Sullivan engaged in “unpermitted sexual conduct” with him. But the Church’s lawyers deposed him and decided …

Public awareness of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy actually dates from 1984. It was triggered by the public exposure of widespread sexual violation of children by a single priest in the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, and its systemic cover-up by the church’s leadership that lasted well over a decade. Cardinal Bernard Law …

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. John’s also commissioned an inquiry in 1989 into the sexual abuse of boys by members of the clergy and Christian Brothers. It was chaired by Lt-Gov. Gordon Winter, an Anglican. The commission strongly criticized the Archdiocesan administration for its handling of child abuse …

One of the first priests charged in connection with the Roman Catholic sex–abuse scandal in the 1980s has died. In 1988 Father John Corrigan pleaded guilty to five charges of gross indecency and two counts of sexual assault on boys between the ages of 10 and 13. Eight other charges originally filed against the priest …

KENNEBUNKPORT — New allegations of molestation against a former priest from Boston, Massachusetts, who was a central figure in the Boston archdiocese’s sex abuse scandal, surfaced this year with ties to Kennebunkport. Ronald Paquin, 75, has been indicted on 31 counts of sexual misconduct stemming from an …

Threats from North Korea, legal problems with a political status vote and the Chamorro Land Trust Act, a growing clergy sex abuse scandal and the high-profile trial of a police officer were all among Guam’s top stories of 2017. Here’s a look back at a year that will be remembered for international tensions and controversial …

In a ruling Thursday, Judge Robert Kressel ordered the archdiocese, insurance companies, parishes, a creditors’ committee and sexual abuse survivors back to mediation. Kressel said the compensation plan presented by survivors of the abuse would require too much time and money to carry out, while the archdiocese …

The suspended archbishop was located in Fairfield county near San Francisco, California, in January last year by private investigators hired by attorney David Lujan. Lujan represents Apuron’s accusers and dozens of other child sex abuse victims who have filed lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Agana, former clergy …

A total of 37 per cent of the 15,000 survivors who came forward to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse were sexually assaulted within the Catholic Church. These atrocious crimes against children were not committed by suburban delinquents or bikie gangs — but by your local clergy.

HAGÅTÑA, Guam — A could be reached soon in four sexual abuse cases filed last year against Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron in Guam district court. … deceased former altar boy Joseph “Sonny” Quinata sued Apuron last fall, accusing him of molesting and/or raping the boys in the late 1970s, when he was a parish priest.

LONDON – A priest was jailed for 18 years on Thursday for sexual abusing boys at a top British Catholic school in crimes dating back to the 1970s. Andrew Soper, 74, fled … Giving evidence, Soper denied using the cane as a ruse to abuse boys who were given the choice of six lashes with trousers on, or three with them off.

That being said, I also don’t think the priest’s death is something to celebrate. Much like the Kentucky politician and pastor who killed himself during an investigation into sexual abuse charges brought by a 17-year-old member of his church, Csaszar evaded what would likely have been a guilty verdict and a prison sentence.

Attorneys for victims of sex abuse have filed a lawsuit against a bankrupt Catholic diocese in Montana last week to ensure that more than $70 million in assets will … victims are also seeking access to the Gergen Trust, a batch of investments and mineral rights that were transferred by a priest to the diocese during the 1970s.

Sexual abuse in Catholicism has been a sticky topic over the years with many priests being subjected to rumors and some proven to be guilty of crossing the line with children. While the Vatican has been made of aware of the recent allegations, more …

He alleges that when he was a teenager and an altar boy at San Isidro Catholic Church in Malojloj he was molested repeatedly by Fr. Louis Brouillard who was serving as a priest there. He alleges the sexual abuse occurred over a five year period. San …

She was thus responsible for the president-elect, an accused serial sexual abuser, … to never speak of him to anyone other than “a priest, a therapist, or a lawyer.” … After Wong-Hernandez reported the sexual–abuse allegations to St. HOPE’s …

THIS WEEK IN SEX ABUSE OF CHILDREN BY PEDOPHILE CATHOLIC PRIESTS [Nov 19, 2016]

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Three more cases have been filed in the Superior Court of Guam related to child sex abuse allegations involving local clergy. The total now stands at seven complaints for damages involving allegations of child sex abuse in the local catholic church …

After the hearing, creditors — including more than 400 victims of clergy sexual abuse as well as some vendors — will vote on the plan. A majority is required to approve it. If the plan is not approved, according to the archdiocese statement, there …

Brendan Smyth, who served as visiting priest, counselor and teacher at Our Lady of … both were between 6 and 9 years old at the time of the alleged abuse. … have misled these plaintiffs ‘into believing that the sexual assault did not occur.'”.

… there, where the local bishop will be holding a prayer service for victims of sexual abuse. … The priest who abused him, he told KDKA-TV’s Ralph Iannotti, never … abuse of perhaps hundreds of children in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, …